Why is the voice acting so much worse, and why don't they just re-use the original voices?

https://twitter.com/NintendoEurope/status/2068348147814773164

I actually don't completely hate the new art direction, but the voices are SO bad. It's like the voice actors were forced to lip sync to characters who were animated talking a mile a minute without their actual dialogue lines in mind (which is probably what happened).

Legit better to just use the old voices & not even worry if they line up with lip movement.
@threadreaderapp unroll

Elections in Colombia proceeded peacefully

After polls closed @Registraduria provided preliminary counts (unofficial results)

By 5 pm, 90% of the mesas reported and candidates stabilized

@ABDELAESPRIELLA is the likely winner by 250k votes

Result must wait official Escrutinio

US voters may be surprised to know that in Colombia citizens learn about the electoral results from official sources in real time

@CESJUL_ @Dejusticia @parescolombia

Citizens and NGOs can verify E14 Actas



Here is an example from Bogota municipality …vueltapresidente.registraduria.gov.co/home

The next President will have to forge legislative agreements

Colombia has become a highly fragmented party system

The Effective Number of Parties ENP as calculated by CLEA moved away from a centralized 2+ party system to a 5 party system in the 2010s

electiondataarchive.org/data-and-docum…

The market is treating Adobe like a legacy software company in terminal decline. Yet the actual data shows it's one of the biggest beneficiaries of the rise of GenAI. In fact, it's one of the top 5 most profitable & fastest-growing AI companies today, in an industry where profitability is rare.

Adobe hit a record $6.62 billion in Q2 revenue (up 13% YoY) while non-GAAP EPS jumped 18% to $5.96. Its net margins are at 36%, close to an all-time high. They are absorbing the compute costs of generative AI while expanding their profitability.

Their AI-first ARR tripled year-over-year to surpass $500 million. Very few enterprise software companies are reporting this level of direct, paid AI adoption. The breakout driver is Firefly, now at $300M in ARR, growing approximately 50% quarter-over-quarter through apps and credit packs. That's better growth than most top AI startups. Paid users for the Acrobat AI Assistant also grew by more than 150%.

Since people have been asking forever, I finally decided to give ReactOS a try! Let's...see...how...it...went. Buckle up, things are about to get a little chaotic. Time for a looong 🧵

So, first of all, I decided to go with the nightly debug version, so take that for what it is worth! Second, I promise I am not being critical, what has been done here represents a lot of great work, and the software is still considered to be alpha.

Okay! So, step 1, after downloading the debug ISO, I burned a CD. As we can see, this is version 0.4.17-dev.

Introducing Sakana Fugu: A full multi-agent orchestration system accessible via a single model API.

Our ‘Fugu Ultra’ model matches the performance of Fable and Mythos, delivering frontier capability without the risk of export controls.

Try it: 🐡sakana.ai/fugu

Fugu stands shoulder-to-shoulder with leading models like Fable and Mythos across the industry's most rigorous engineering, scientific, and reasoning benchmarks.

Read the full blog: sakana.ai/fugu-release

Beyond Bigger Models: Why are Orchestration Models the Next Frontier

Progress in AI has been driven largely by giant, monolithic models. But the most powerful systems of the future will be collaborative ecosystems.

Today, this orchestration is no longer just a technical optimization. It has become a geopolitical and operational imperative.

For an organization or a nation, relying on a single company's model for critical infrastructure, finance, or governance is a material vulnerability. This risk is no longer a hypothetical possibility, but a reality.

As we have seen with recent export controls imposed on models like Fable and Mythos, access can disappear overnight.

Collective intelligence is the practical hedge against this concentration of power. Because Fugu orchestrates an underlying pool of swappable agents, it simply routes around vendor restrictions.

By orchestrating the world’s models, we are delivering the resilient blueprint required for true AI sovereignty.

How does it work?

Sakana Fugu is itself an LLM, trained to call various LLMs in an agent pool, including instances of itself recursively. Fugu dynamically orchestrates the world's best models to tackle complex, multi-step tasks.

As shown in this figure, Fugu is a multi-agent system that behaves like a single model. You send a request to one endpoint, and Fugu decides how to handle it internally.

Fugu manages model selection, delegation, verification, and synthesis automatically. It solves tasks directly when that is enough, or coordinates a team of expert models when a problem calls for more. The complexity of a multi-agent system never reaches your code.

At launch, Sakana Fugu comes in two models accessed via a single OpenAI-compatible API:

• Fugu balances strong performance with low latency for everyday work. It fits naturally into tools like Codex for coding, as well as chatbots and interactive services. You can also opt specific agents out of its pool for data compliance.

• Fugu Ultra is our flagship model tuned for maximum answer quality on hard, multi-step problems. It coordinates a deeper pool of expert agents for demanding work like AI research, cybersecurity analysis, and patent investigations.

While everyone’s busy with Father’s Day, X is on a massive suspension roll. Somehow all on purely science-based topics.
@Jikkyleaks

Additional suspensions. They were literally censoring science which they don’t like.

Appeal @AlmanaLepiz2252

@AlmanaLepiz2252 Just to show how unfair this act is.

14 HARVARD TECHNIQUES to be better than 99% of the world

1. The 5 - second rule

The moment you think of doing something productive, count down 5-4-3-2-1 and physically move.

Interrupts brain’ s hesitation loop before doubt creeps in.

Use it for :

Getting out of bed

Making that cold call

Starting a workout

The Feymann technique

Pick a concept you’ re learning.

Write an exploratipn as if teaching it to a 12-year old, using zero jargon.

Wherever you get stuck, that’ s the gap.

Go back & relearn that part.

Every argument between Catholics and Protestants is secretly about something neither side ever brings up.

Not the Bible. Not the Church. Not the pope.

A 700-year-old metaphysical dispute you were never told you inherited.

Here's the fight underneath the fight. 🧵

Start with Luther.

The story you know: he went back to the Bible, alone, against a corrupt Church.

The story you don't: he was trained in the via moderna — the school of William of Ockham. He called Ockham "my dear master."

He didn't return to Scripture. He returned to a philosophy.

(2/10)

That philosophy turns on one question almost nobody asks:

Are universals real?

Realism (think Aquinas) says yes. "Human nature" is a real thing. Things have a substantial form — a real essence under the surface. And everything that
exists shares in God's own being, by analogy.

Reality is layered. Meaning is built into it.

(3/10)

The capture of the ICO - 🧵
(The Information Commissioners Office)

The sudden resignation of UK Information Commissioner John Edwards on 19 June 2026 highlights a significant moment of institutional vulnerability. Open Society Foundations (OSF) and Omidyar-funded lawfare networks have moved quickly to leverage this self-inflicted crisis. civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…

First, let's look at the catalyst.
Edwards didn't fall to external activism; he fell to an internal workplace investigation that found a "case to answer" regarding vulgar, highly sexualised language. It was a classic unforced error at the top of the watchdog.
therecord.media/uk-information…

Edwards attempted to downplay his actions on LinkedIn, claiming they were merely "attempts at humour that were inappropriate and caused offence." However, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) rejected this framing, stating his conduct fell well below public life standards.
digit.fyi/john-edwards-r…

The Beatitudes are the most quoted, least understood words Jesus ever spoke.

8 statements. Each one begins "Blessed are."

Each one names a kind of person the ancient world considered anything but blessed.

This is not a feel-good list. It is a complete reversal of how human beings have always measured a good life.

Here's what each one actually means. 🧵

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (5:3)

Not financially poor, though that's not excluded.

πτωχός (ptōchos) — utterly destitute, having nothing to offer.

This is the posture of someone who has stopped pretending they're spiritually self-sufficient.

The kingdom doesn't belong to those who have impressive spiritual résumés.

It belongs to those who know they have nothing to bring and come anyway.

This is the foundation everything else stands on.

You can't build genuine faith on self-sufficiency.

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." (5:4)

Not blessed despite mourning. Blessed in it.

This includes grief over loss, but in context, it also points to mourning over sin, brokenness, and the state of the world.

The ancient world prized stoic composure.
Don't show weakness.
Don't show grief.

Jesus says the opposite: those honest enough to feel the weight of a broken world are the ones positioned to receive real comfort.

You cannot be comforted for a wound you refuse to admit you have.

Vector, who leads a Ukrainian unit striking deep inside Russia with long-range drones: They are now our most important card in this war.

Ukraine now flies 200 to 300 of these drones at targets inside Russia every night, up from a few dozen a month in early 2024 — Politico. 1/

In a secret warehouse, GUR specialists assemble 15-foot Liutyi kamikaze drones that carry up to 150 pounds of explosives and fly 1,300 miles.

Each costs about $230,000. Small teams scatter across Ukraine to launch them, so losing a few sites or drones changes little. 2/

Vector: At the beginning, Russians believed they were conducting a special military operation. Now they understand that this is a war.

This war has now reached your homes as well. We hope that message helps Russia bring this war to an end. 3/

Ukrainian strikes have already disabled almost 40% of primary oil refining in European Russia

Russia runs its war on refined fuel. Diesel moves trucks and logistics. Jet fuel keeps aviation in the air. Generators need fuel every day, — Hromadske. 1/

Ukraine is hitting the core refinery units that turn crude into usable fuel.

These units are large, complex and hard to replace under sanctions.

Every successful strike removes capacity, adds repair time and increases pressure on the Russian fuel system. 2/

The route from refinery to front is long.

Fuel leaves the plant, moves to depots, goes by rail toward Rostov or Bataysk, reaches local bases, then moves by tanker trucks to Russian units.

Every broken refinery creates delays across this route. 3/